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OFFICE COMMISSARY GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE,
Washington City, November 19, 1866. 

[CIRCULAR LETTER]

SIR: 
I. In cases specially approved by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Assistant-Commissioners are authorized to obtain from the Subsistence Department such Subsistence Stores as the may require for issue.

II. Officers on duty in the Subsistence Department will promptly fill, as far as their available supplies will permit, all properly approved requisitions from Assistant-Commissioners. 

Very Respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

(Signed) A.B. EATON,
C.G. Sub.

I concur in the above. Officers in the Freedmen's Bureau will be governed accordingly. 
O.O. HOWARD,
Maj-Gen., Commissioner.

OFFICIAL: 

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A.A.Adj.-General.